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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The "War On Terror" ("gwot") is the JEWISH RUN INQUISITION of the 21st century... a REVERSION to the CONQUEST by SWORD of 7th Century Islam, or CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION of _anyone_ deemed "Heretics"..

note: this is the first in a series of posts we hope to write over the coming week, documenting 9-11 DECODED, about the TREASON / terror attacks against New York, against Washington, against the American flying public, and against the entire American nation on that awful, infamous day 14 years ago, September 11th, 2001.

The "WAR ON TERROR"

- or 'gwot' - "global war against terrorism" -

is a JEWISH RUN INQUISITION

that was planned and put in motion _long before_ the terror attacks of 9-11 2001 went down.

as well, via their BRIBED, BLACKMAILED, EXTORTED, & bought of SENATORS ,Con-gress Critters, presidents, and other elected and non-elected officials
As our below "Inquisition" article explains,the PURPOSE of all this _is_ MURDER!The TERRORIZING and DESTRUCTION of _millions_ of peopleIS THE INTENT! just exactly as the JEW COMMISSARS did in the RED TERROR, 'Communist revolution/civil-war, and DEATH-CAMP GULAGS ruled "Soviet Union"

Resistance to the Catholic Church's many abuses of power & ruthless,mass-murder terror and ATROCITIES of the INQUISTION led directly to the Protestant Reformation - and bloody civil wars.Here French Queen Catherine d'Medici (upper left corner, in black)surveys the grisly results of her mass-murderous handiwork:the CORPSES of Protestant "Hugenot" victims MASSACRED by Catholics in the infamous St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre

RESISTANCE to the Catholic Church's TERROR & ATROCITIES of the INQUISITION was the main cause of the Protestant Reformation...and of the bloody and horrific RELIGIOUS and CIVIL WAR that ensued. JEWS CELEBRATE SIMILAR bloody, murderous massacres:- their PURIM celebration celebrates the MASSACRES of over 75,000 people! - they exult in the bloody, alleged conquest of Jericho and the Canaan Valley(the bloody core of the Jews' "promised land" MYTH)- and even their seemingly benign "HANUKAH" festival _actually_ CELEBRATES the MASSACRES of not only the 'Helenic' Greek soldiers who had been ruling the region......but the MASSACRES and enslavement of ANYONE not part of the Judeo revolt who was captured after the Greek army was defeated.
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In fact the 9-11 terror attacks were only the second and more visible part(s) of

Before we start getting down to the nuts-and-bolts of the 9-11 TREASON / terror attacks,
we'll first highlight some of the historical and philosophical forces that contributed
to the formulation and implementation of this huge, murderous, and sinister conspiracy.
Hopefully, this first post in our "9-11 DECODED" series will be a simple one!

We will simply point out that JUDAISM is today, under its many guises:- the Jewish controlled "Federal Reserve," ECB, Bank of England" and other privately owned "central banks";
- the Jewish controlled "American," British (Canadian, Australian, & etc. ) and European corporate media;
- and of course the overtly Jewish supported and Israel directed lobby groups like AIAPC, ADL, JCC, and AJCthat are allare HUGELY POWERFUL FORCES in America,
organizations withaims that are NOT always synonymous with what is good for America or for Americans;
a powerful political, financial, social, media, cultural, and religious force

- often exerted by FOREIGN agents -

that simultaneously brags and gloats about its influence....while criticizing any inspection much less criticism of that influence as "anti-Semitic"! WITH RIGHTS COME RESPONSIBILITIES, and for Jews to claim that THEY have "the right to freedom of religion" - - while simultaenously trying to IMPOSE their "chosen," "right to own slaves" and "greater israel" racist, bronze-age ideology and intolerant, homicidal theology on America and the world, is hypocritical, murderous, & treacherous in the extreme!

"Once accused by the Catholic inquisition..."(in all its various manifestations: against Christian "heresies" in AD 400;

against the Cathar heresy in the 1200s,

against the Muslim (or jewish "CONVERSOS" in 15th century Spain,

or by the Roman Inquisition that terrorized much of Europe)"...no one got off without some form of punishment."

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THAT was easy!

Despite knowing that there are dozens of JEWISH RUN COMMUNITY, activist, and lobby groups in America - spearheaded by AIPAC, ADL, JCC, and AJC,

when we went to find a list of some of these groups,we were directed by google to a wiki page that was part of their...

"anti-Semitism" series!

JEWS - who, in their fundamentalist and orthodox practices BELIEVE THEY are _ALWAYS_ A NATION _within_ a nation (a separate and ultimately "sovereign nation" loyal _only to g-o-d"; living among any other HOST NATION they may dwell among on only a temporary or non-permanent basis)

feel they have the right to organize as many lobbyist, activist, and (exclusively!) JEWISH community groups as their numbers and social standing can command...

but if we Americans wish to inquire about the power & influence of those groups on OUR politics and OUR politicians...

why, WE are being "anti-Semitic"!

The JEWISH LOBBY = INQUISITION BULLIES !!

Merely to ask about the influence of Jewish community groups in America... much less to inquire about the well orchestrated, well funded, and FOREIGNER CONTROLLED ISRAEL LOBBY in America - - is to be 'ANTI-semitic' ?!!!

But EVERY ONE of these RACIST, hyper- HYPOCRITICE jewish groups are ZIO-NAZIS:masking their _support_ for RACISM, APARTHEID, and not only VIOLENT SEGREGATION in israhell... but advocating GENOCIDAL "ETHNIC CLEANSING"of _everyone_ in _the_vicinity_ of the infernal jew state to make way for "Greater Israel" as their entire religious & cultural upbringing directs them to !!!

If these demon jews DON'T SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS for "white" Americans, they can't possibly support civil rights for Black Americans!!In fact, these FUNDAMENTALIST JEWS HATE _EVERYONE_ not part of their little demon "chosen" cabal

- and if they ever did succeed in exterminating, extirpating, and eliminating _all_ non-jews from planet earth.. they would immediately start KILLING EACH OTHER, as King David's sons were so quick to kill each other, and as the "great" king David was himself DRIVEN OUT of Jerusalem in disgrace by his OWN (jewish) people - - who HATED & DESPISED him for his tyranny!

TREASON!The ENTIRE "War on Terror" is a JEWISH RUN SHAM = the NEW INQUISITION !!The Jews SUPPORT "ISIS" TERRORISTS - funded by their SAUDI, QATARI, Kuwaiti, and other Sunni head-chopping PARTNERS in big-OIL global FINANCE -TERRORIZING CHRISTIANS and BURNING CHURCHES - in Syria, in Lebanon, in Libya, in Egypt, IN IRAQ - as a prelude to their own insane, demonic plans to ANNEX those brutalized by PROXY "ISIS" MERCENARY TERRORIST nations on to 'GREATER ISRAEL'!

America's infernal, treacherous JEWISH RABBIS

_SUPPORTED_ the MURDERS of 50,000

Black
Africans _MASSACRED_ in Libya

during and after the ISIS = al Qaeda TERRORISTS took over that brutalized nation...
under a hail of
MURDEROUS, Jew war lobby directed NATO bombs!

But these same vile, evil New York Jews SHED CROCODILE TEARS for
Blackshere in America!

THEY ARE TRAITOROUS, LYING, MURDEROUS, hypocrite, GENOCIDAL SCUM

who HATE everyone around them...

exactly as their bible, their evil
Talmud, and their lifetime "Chosen ones" religious INDOCTRINATION and
training instructs them to....
...just exactly as the Dominicans and other Church officials were REWARDED for being SADISTIC MASS-MURDERERS by promotions & power in the Catholic Inquisition
for over 1,000 years...

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The CORE of the JEWS' "CHOSEN" identity:

ABRAHAM sends his concubineand his own son by her (Ishmael)

to DIE in the desert... in his RACIST PREFERENCE

for his other, younger son Isaac.

According to this horrible bible story, "g-o-d" hears Hagar's crying... and saves her and her son from certain death in the desert. Nevertheless,

JEWS LOOK AT THIS STORY as the CORE of THEIR "CHOSENNESS" -

their alleged "superiority" over all other peoples; and they are instructed throughout their lives to "to be like Abraham"- WILLING TO KILL THEIR OWN CHILD

14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the [my] child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Jews regard this passage -a man condemning his own son to DEATH in the desert for purely RACIST reasons - as INSTRUCTIONS for how they should treat _all_ NON-JEWS...! ========================================

Like Jewish priests, prophets, kings, and later rabbis who came before them, officials of the Catholic('Catholic' merely means "Universal") Christian church were all about WRITING RULES... and ENFORCING THEM ruthlessly,
claiming the power of g-o-d to punish, seize property from, or execute _anyone_
brought to the attention of those Church officials... for any reason _they_ deemed sufficient.

This MURDEROUS ENFORCEMENT of religious, theocratic rules was essentially AN ON-GOING PURGE...
with powerful church officials getting away with the exact same 'crimes' that 'lesser people' were tortured, humiliated, dispossessed, disinherited, terrorized, & EXECUTED for.
According to Jews, Christians, _and_ intolerant Muslims,

the "g-o-d" of their "holy book(s)"is a BUTCHER G-O-D,

who eliminates "his" human creation "mistakes" and "errors" by BRUTAL MEANS:
by stoning, by beating to death with clubs, by hacking with swords, by burning, or by other even more sadistic & imaginative forms of torture, brutal executions, or deaths in war, fighting, and trauma inflicted "at god's direction" by brutal enforcers - by warriors or church officials or government appartchiks - of "god's will".

The notion of a powerful and infinite "CREATOR G-O-D"
- powerful enough to "CREATE THE UNIVERSE" but who also COMMANDS the serial and repeated cold-blooded, violent, and brutal KILLINGS of CHILDREN in large numbersshould be repugnant to all rational and sane humans...

but this notion is precisely the foundation

of the "NOAHIDE" or Abrahamic based "faiths"

A quick glance at the below description of the horrors of the French, Spanish, Roman & other Catholic INQUISITIONS reveal that

...JEWISH OFFICIALS wrote the Hebrew bible to CODIFY and INSTITUTIONALIZE all those horrific powers - see the infamous bible story of Moses instructing his brother Aaron and Aaron's sons to "strap on their swords" and MASSACRE the very people who had been prancing around the Golden Calf...

EXODUS ch. 3232 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.4 HE took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[b] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”22 “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. [not their cowardly, vacillating, back-stabbing, hypocrite, idol-worshipping 'leaders'!!] 23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’24 So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”25 Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies.26 So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites [Aaron and his sons... the very people who had cast the Golden Calf and LED the procession around it!] rallied to him.27 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’”28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.29 Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”

the bible oily glossing-over the fact thatthe treacherous, cowardly, backstabbing Aaron and his sons HAD BUILT the golden calf and LED the Hebrew exiles in worship around it,
after Moses went missing on his climb of Mt. Sinai...

In that infamous passage we see

the bible SPECIFICALLY ENCODES the MASSACRES, MURDERS, torture, and terrorizing of others

as a means for JEWISH OFFICIALS to "resume their good graces in eyes of g-o-d" !!!!

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition for salvation. Lord Acton (1834-1902)

The name Inquisition is somewhat misleading in that over the centuries
there have been a number of Inquisitions. They have been directed against all of
the groups we have looked at - pagans and supposed witches, dissenting sects,
Cathars, Moslems, Jews and members of other religions. They have also been
directed against freethinkers, apostates, atheists, and blasphemers.

In 1184 Pope Lucius III and the Emperor Frederick formulated a program
for the repression of heretics. This document, Ad abolendum, is sometimes known
as the charter of the Inquisition, because it set the tone for future
developments. The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215ordered all bishops to hold an
annual inquisition, if there was a suspicion of heresy in their See. But these
Episcopal Inquisitions were found to be inadequate to the task.

The Medieval Inquisition.
A roving papal Inquisition was set up in 1231 by
Pope Gregory IX. He extended existing legislation against heretics and
introduced the death penalty for them - indeed for anyone who dissented from his
views. This Inquisition was initially intended to be temporary, and was used to
extirpate surviving Cathars in the Languedoc.Anyone accused or "defamed" was
treated as guilty, and no one once defamed got off without some punishment.
After 1227 inquisitorial commissions were granted only to the friars, usually to
the Dominicans. The Inquisition was now the "Dominican Inquisition". Dominic
Guzmán's threats of slavery and death for the citizens of the Languedoc were
fulfilled for a second time. First the massacres, now the Inquisition. The
bishop of Toulouse marked the canonization of St Dominic on his first Saint's
Day (4th August 1234), by burning a woman for her Cathar beliefs. She had
confessed to him as she lay sick in bed with a fever. She was carried to a
field, still on her sickbed, and consigned to the flames .

All of the legal apparatus of the Inquisition was developed during this
period. Elsewhere, courts followed at least the basic rules of justice: the
accused knew their accusers, they were allowed legal representation, in some
places judgement was delivered by a jury composed of peers of the accused.The
old bishops' Inquisitions had been public hearings, but these papal inquisitions
were different: now secret hearings took place before clerical judges and
prosecutors. Guilt was assumed from the start. There were no juries, no legal
representation for the accused . No habeas corpus. No disclosure of any evidence
against the accused. No appeal. Inquisitors were allowed to excuse each other
for breaches of the rules - which meant that in effect there were no rules.
There were secret depositions and anonymous accusations, torture and unlimited
detention in appalling conditions for those who failed to confess. People were
immured, walled up, chained, with no light and given only bread and water. Dead
people were tried along with the living. When found guilty their children were
disinherited. At least half the estate generally went to the Church - so that
the Church had an direct material interest in a guilty verdict. Children and
grandchildren of those found guilty were all debarred from any secular
office.

Gregory's immediate successor died before assuming the reins of office, but
the next Pope, Innocent IV, made the Inquisition into a permanent institution.
In 1252 he issued a bull Ad extirpanda which explicitly authorised the use of
torture, seizure of goods and execution, all on minimal evidence. Torture was to
be administered by the secular authority, but when this proved impractical the
inquisitors were allowed to administer it themselves (and to absolve each other
for doing so). Thereafter it was an exceptional man, woman or child who could
not quickly be convinced of his or her heresy.

In theory torture could be applied only once, and could not be such as to
draw blood, to cause permanent mutilation or to kill. Boys under the age of
fourteen and girls under twelve were excused. In practice there was no-one to
enforce any of these safeguards, and they were all ignored. The accused were
imprisoned, often for many months, before being examined. They were often kept
in solitary confinement, in insanitary conditions, in a dark dungeon, and
without adequate heating, food or water. This was deliberate, and designed to
ensure that most of the accused would already have broken by the time of the
first examination. Only the strongest characters were able to face a tribunal of
hooded figures who claimed to have heard witnesses and seen incriminating
evidence. Most were prepared to admit anything, even though they did not know
what the accusations were. Those who failed to admit their crimes were taken to
torture chamber and shown the instruments of torture. This too was designed to
terrify and break them - the dark chamber, the horrifying instruments, the
torturer-executioner dressed and hooded in black. If they still failed to admit
their guilt they were then subjected to torture: men, women and children alike.
Some people were tortured for years before confessing. Only the most exceptional
could resist. Every day they risked being tortured to death .

Tortures varied from time to time and place to place, but the following
represent the more popular options. Victims were stripped and bound. The cords
were tied around the body and limbs in such a way that they could be tightened,
by a windlass if necessary, until they acted like multiple tourniquets. By
attaching the cords to a pulley the victim could be hoisted off the ground for
hours, then dropped. Whether the victim was pulled up short before the weight
touched the floor, or allowed to fall to the floor the pain was acute (this was
the torture of the pulley, also known as squassation. It was also called the
strappado, by which name we have already encountered it at Bamberg). John Howard
found this still in use in Rome in the second half of the eighteenth century .
The rack was a favourite for dislocating limbs. Again, the victim could be
flogged, bathed in scalding water with lime, and have their eyes removed with
purpose designed eye-gougers. Fingernails were pulled out. Grésillons
(thumbscrews) were applied to thumbs and big-toes until the bones were crushed.
The victim was forced to sit on a spiked iron chair which could be heated by a
fire underneath until it glowed red-hot. Branding irons and red hot pincers were
also used. The victim's feet could be placed in a wooden frame called a boot.
Wedges were then hammered in until the bones shattered, and the "blood and
marrow spouted forth in great abundance". Alternatively the feet could be held
over an open fire, and literally roasted until the bones fell out; or they could
be placed in huge leather boots into which boiling water was poured, or in metal
boots into which molten lead was poured. Since the holy proceedings were
conducted for the greater glory of God the instruments of torture were sprinkled
with holy water.

Whole families were accused. Family members would often be induced to
incriminate each other in order to minimise the suffering of their loved ones.
Minor heretics who confessed might escape with light sentences, whereas denial
invited trouble. The Inquisitor Conrad of Marburg burned every victim who
claimed to be innocent. Hearings of the Inquisition denied every aspect of
natural justice, and became ever more prejudiced as time went on. They were held
in secret, generally conducted by men whose identities were concealed. In the
Papal States and elsewhere Dominicans acted as both Judge and Prosecutor. By
papal command they were forbidden to show mercy. There was no appeal. The
evidence of embittered husbands and wives, children, servants and persons
heretical, excommunicated, perjured and criminal could be used, secretly and
without their having to face the accused, their charges being communicated to
him only in summary form.

No genuine defence could be sustained. For example, if a husband provided
an alibi, saying that his wife had been asleep in his arms when she was alleged
to have been attending a witches' sabbat, it would be explained to him that a
demon had adopted the form of his wife while she was away. The husband had been
duped. There was no way for him to prove otherwise. Spies were employed with the
incentive of payment by results. Perjury was pardoned if it was the outcome of
"zeal for the faith" - i.e. supporting the prosecution. Loyalties were
over-ridden so that obedience to a superior was forbidden if it hindered the
inquiry, and those who helped the inquisitors were granted the same indulgences
as pilgrims to the Holy Land. Any advocate acting for and any witness giving
evidence on behalf of a suspect laid themselves open to charges of abetting
heresy. No one was ever acquitted, a released person always being liable to
re-arrest and a condemned person liable to a revised sentence with no retrial,
at the discretion of the inquisitor. In theory torture could be inflicted only
once, but in practice it was repeated as often as necessary on the pretext that
it was a single occurrence, with intervals between the sessions. Confessions
were virtually guaranteed unless the victim died under torture. Then came the
sentence, and execution of the sentence:

..The obdurate and relapsed were taken outside the church and handed to
the magistrates with a recommendation to mercy and instruction that no blood be
shed. The supreme hypocrisy of this was that if the magistrate did not burn the
victims on the following day, he was himself liable to be charged with abetting
heresy....

Almost everyone fell within their jurisdiction. People were executed for
failing to fast during Lent, for homosexuality, fornication, explaining
scientific discoveries, and even for professional acting.

In order that blood not be shed the favoured methods of execution did not
involve the cutting of flesh. So it was that burning was popular, the stake
having been inherited from Roman Law. The estates of those found guilty were
forfeit, after the deduction of expenses. Expenses included the costs of the
investigation, torture, trial, imprisonment and execution. The accused bore it
all, including wine for the guards, meals for the judges, and travel expenses
for the torturer. Victims were even charged for the ropes to bind them and the
tar and wood to burn them. Generally, after paying these expenses, half of the
balance of the estate went to the inquisitors and half to the Pope, or a
temporal lord. This proved such an efficient way of raising money that it became
popular to try the dead as well as the living. Bones were dug up and burned,
even after many years in the grave. As in trials of the living, there were no
acquittals, and the heretic's property was forfeit. In practice this meant that
the heirs of the deceased were dispossessed of their inheritances.

The trial of the Templars demonstrates how unjust the Inquisition could be.
The charges of heresy against them were almost certainly fabricated. No real
evidence was ever produced to support the accusations. The best that could be
managed was hearsay evidence such as that of a priest (William de la Forde) who
had heard from another priest (Patrick de Ripon), that a Templar had once told
him, under the inviolable seal of confession, about some rather improbable
goings on . The most damning evidence was obtained by Inquisitors through the
use of torture. In countries where torture was not permitted the Templars denied
the charges, however badly they were otherwise treated and however long they
were imprisoned. As soon as torture was applied the required confessions
materialised . Inquisitors refused to attach their seals to depositions unless
they included confessions , so that only one side of case appeared in official
records. In France, where torture was applied freely there were many
confessions, and also many deaths under torture. Anyone who retracted their
confession faced death at the stake as a relapsed heretic.

Under torture, the Grand Master himself confessed - though it is likely
that his confession was fabricated or at least added to, since he was dumfounded
when it was read out to him in public. When he tried to mount a defence on
behalf of the Order he was told that "in cases of heresy and the faith it was
necessary to proceed simply, summarily, and without the noise of advocates and
the form of judges" . Since all of the Order's assets had been seized there was
in any case no way for him to mount an effective defence. By asking to do so he
invited death at the stake, as a number of churchmen pointed out at the
time.

When no English Templars could be induced to confess, the Pope insisted
that torture be applied. When the Archbishop of Mainz delivered a verdict
favourable to the Templars at a provincial council, the Pope simply annulled it
. When it looked as though the Templars in Cypress might be acquitted the Pope
ordered a new trial backed by torture . When the fate of the Templars was
considered at the Council of Vienne late in 1311 the Cardinals had "a long
dispute" as to weather a defence should be heard at all . In the event no
defence was heard and the Pope enforced the King's demand that the Order be
suppressed.

Templar assets were divided up between Church and State, and interest in
the fates of individual Templars immediately subsided. Jacques de Molay, the
Grand Master, retracted his confession knowing what the consequences would be,
and was roasted alive, slowly, over a smokeless fire on 18th March 1314. .

The activities of the Inquisition were so terrible that the memory of them
has survived throughout Europe to the present day. Some Christians acknowledge
that this body was one of the most sinister that the world has ever known, and
now attribute its work to satanic forces. On the other hand there are many
others prepared to defend its record.

The Spanish Inquisition. The Medieval Inquisition was established in
Barcelona in 1233. Five years later its authority was extended to Castille,
Leon, and Navarre. This was essentially an extension of the Inquisition
established to extirpate the remnants of Catharism. Over two hundred years later
another inquisition was to appear: the Spanish Inquisition. It was established
by their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabela, in 1479, with the explicit
sanction of Pope Sixtus IV who in 1483 also confirmed the Dominican friar Thomas
de Torquemada as Grand Inquisitor for Aragon and Castile. The Inquisition was
initially directed against Jewish and Moslem converts who were suspected of
returning to their own religion, and thus being guilty of apostasy. (Many had
converted to Christianity only under threat of death).

The process was much the same as that of the medieval Inquisition, and
indeed was deliberately modeled on it. It too was manned mainly by Dominicans.
They copied the methods of dilation, arrest, trial, punishment, staffing, and
procedure, even down to the blessing of the instruments of torture.

There were a few differences from the Medieval Inquisition, for example
there were cases were people were able to mount a defence and were acquitted.
Better records were kept. Some Inquisitors seem to have been relatively
enlightened and were suspicious of accusations motivated by the self interest of
accusers. Prisons seem to have been better than most eccliastical prisons -
there are cases of people committing minor heresies in order to get themselves
transferred from eccliastical prisons to those of the Inquisition. On the other
hand, this may say more about eccliastical prisons than Inquisition prisons, for
even in the latter many died before their cases were heard. In the early days
the accused were able to appoint their own defense councel, but by the mid
sixteenth century this had changed. If advocates were permitted they had to be
abogados de los presos, officials of the Inquisition, dependant upon the
Inquisitors for their jobs. It is fair to assume, as their clients did, that
these court officials were aware of their employers' expectations and of the
dangers of doing their jobs too well.

It was widely accepted that the Inquisition existed only to rob people, as
they openly affirmed . Both rich and poor knew that it was the rich who were
most at risk. The fact that the Inquisition funded itself from the property it
confiscated meant that in effect it burned beople on commission. Individual
Inquisitors also funded themselves, acquiring great wealth during their careers.
Some inquisitors were known to have fabricated evidence in order to extort money
from their victims, but even when discovered they received no punishment .
Similarly their staff of helpers, called familiars, were free to commit crimes
without fear of punishment by the secular courts . After 1518 this was
formalised. Familiars enjoyed immunity from prosecution similar to benefit of
clergy or modern diplomatic immunity. This provided another cause of popular
scandal, along with their exemption from taxation.

The activities of the inquisitors were resented by all sections of society,
and the papacy was obliged to interfer from time to time though the Inquisitors
were powerful enough to ignore it on many occasions. Pope Sixtus IV issued a
bull on 18th April 1482 protesting that

in Aragon, Valencia, Mallorca and Catalonia the Inquisition has for some
time been moved not by zeal for the faith and the salvation of souls, but by
lust for wealth, and that many true and faithful Christians, on the testimony of
enemies, rivals, slaves and other lower and even less proper persons, have
without any legitimate proof been thrust into secular prisons, tortured and
condemned as relapsed heretics, deprived of their goods and property and handed
over to the secular arm to be executed, to the peril of souls, setting a
pernicious example, and causing disgust to many

When someone was arrested all of their property was seized. This was then
sold off as required to pay for the upkeep of the person arrested. This might go
on for years until the property was all sold off. Their families were not
supported, so that they also suffered hardships. In some cases the children of
rich parents starved in the streets . Others survived by begging. The King,
Ferdinand, intervened from time to time, and later, in 1561, provision was made
to support dependents - though the effect was to use up the sequestered assets
that much faster.

The accused were invited to confess their crimes but not told what these
crimes were. Sometimes it was difficult to guess: changing bedding on a Friday,
not eating pork, dressing in certain ways, wearing earrings, speaking in foreign
languages, owning foreign books, casual swearing, critisising a priest, failing
to show due reverence to the Inquisition, all these could be serious crimes.
Three methods of torture were popular, the garrucha, the toca and the potro. The
garrucha was the strapedo under yet another name. The toca was a water torture.
A linen strip was forced down the throat of the accused and water poured down it
until the stomach was distended. The potro was a form of rack combined with
torniques.

Surviving records of these torture sessions make harrowing reading . As the
torture progressed the victims were soon ready to admit to anything. They would
admit to having done whatever they were accussed of. But since they did not know
the specifics of the accusation they could not admit to them item by item. Not
good enough. More torture was applied. They admitted to whatever their accusers
had said, but again they could not be specific because they did not know what
their accusers had said. Still not good enough. More torture was applied. They
begged for clues. They begged for mercy. They were told to confess. They
confessed to crimes, real or invented, apparently whatever they could think of.
They would admit to anything if only the torture would stop. Sometimes it was
what the Inquisitors wanted, sometimes it was not. If it was not more torture
was applied. They asked what it was the Inquisitors wanted and offered to
confess to it whatever it was. Still not good enough. More torture was applied.
And so it went on, sometimes until they went mad. Sometimes they died under
tortured. Many died in prison. Others committed suicide. Of the survivers some
were disabled for life.

The lucky ones got off with penances, whipping or banishment. Others were
condemned to slow deaths in prison or in the galleys.

Of all the punishments which the Inquisition inflicted in the name of God,
for sheer long-continued cruelty, nothing ever rivalled the treatment of the
galley-slaves, who were flogged very nearly every day during the period they
laboured at the oars…It was a fate worse than death. For, as everyone knew, it
meant a life of the most terrible hardship man could possibly endure and yet
continue to live; it almost inevitably entailed death long before the sentence
was completed. It meant, in the majority of instances, that the victim was
gradually whipped to death.

Others were condemned to public execution. But this was rarely a simple
matter of dispatching the victim. Even those who confessed immediately were
tortured. Execution was not the sentence - it was an additional sentence. At the
end of the trial a public ceremony was held called an Auto-da-fé (Portuguese for
Act of Faith). The victim was dressed in a penitential tunic (san benito)
painted with a design. An impenitent wore one painted with a picture of its
wearer burning in Hell with devils fanning the flames. On their heads they wore
a three foot long pointed pasteboard cap (coroza), also painted. Around their
neck they wore a noose, and in their hands they carried a candle. Anyone judged
likely to speak out against the Inquisition was gagged. After a procession came
a Mass and Sermon, in which the Inquisition was praised and heresy condemned.
The sentences were read aloud and then carried out. As usual the secular
authorities were obliged to burn victims on the Church's behalf on the grounds
that ecclesia non novit sanguinem - the Church does not shed blood. Burning
generally took place on Sundays or festivals in order to attract the largest
possible audience. Participation was a meritorious act - so for example anyone
who helped collect firewood would remission of their sins.

A slow roasting was considered preferable to quick incineration. Victims
were tied high up on their stakes, partly to give the crowds of faithful a good
view, partly to prolong the agony. Sometimes there was further torture before
the fire was lit. For example Protestants who refused to recant had burning
furzes thrust into their faces until they were burned black. The whole event was
popular festival for the devout, who enjoyed the spectacle and ridiculed the
victims in their death agonies. The events were closely linked to royal
spectacles. The king was obliged by his coronation oath to attend these mass
burnings. Such burnings were even held to help celebrate royal marriages.

Children and grandchildren of the condemned were prohibited from becoming
priests, judges or magistrates, lawyers, notaries, accountants, physicians,
surgeons, or even shop keepers. They could not become mayors or hold other
public offices. Some penalties passed from generation to generation without
limit. Under statutes of limpieza de sangre, the descendants of heretics, like
those of Jews and Moors, suffered civil disabilities because of their "tainted
blood". San benitos worn by heretics were hung up in local churches as an
eternal badge of shame so that no-one should forget their heretical ancesters.
When old san benitos wore out over the centuries they were replaced by new ones

The Spanish Inquisition continued its work for centuries, and exported its
practices to the New World. The Portuguese exported similar practices to their
colonies, not only to the New World but also East to countries like Goa. The
fact that very few New World Indians could be induced to convert should have
meant that there was little recidivism, and therefore little heresy. In fact
many hundreds of heresy trials were conducted in South America.

The Spanish Inquisition continued to execute its victims into the
nineteenth century. When the French army invaded Spain in 1808 the Dominicans in
Madrid denied that they had torture chambers in their building. The soldiers
searched and found that they did. The chambers were full of naked prisoners,
many of them insane. Similar discoveries were made throughout the country.

As for other Inquisitions, the total number of men, women and children
tortured or burned to death is unknown because so many records have been lost.
So to for the famies dispossed, children orphaned, communities destroyed. All we
can say with certainty is that the pain and suffering caused is incalculable. It
is also fair to say that, while it existed it, the Spanish Inquisition was
regarded with horror, even by Catholics from other countries who witnessed its
activities. It was abolished by Joseph Bonaparte in 1808, but it was
reintroduced by Ferdinand VII in 1814, and finally ended by government decree on
15th July 1834.

The Roman Inquisition. The Roman Inquisition, more correctly the
Congregation of the Inquisition was set up in 1542 by Pope Paul III to help
eradicate Protestantism from Italy. It was composed of Cardinals, one of whom
had proposed its establishment in the first place. He later became Pope himself,
taking the name Paul IV. A keen opponent of the free exchange of ideas, he
enjoys the distinction of having put even his own writings on the Index.

Procedures of the Roman Inquisition were no more just than those of earlier
Inquisitions, and executions became more common than in Spain. Freethinkers and
scientists were added to the existing categories of victim for torture and
execution. It was this Inquisition that was responsible for burning the foremost
philosopher of the Italian renaissance, Giordano Bruno, in 1600; and for
inducing the foremost scientist, Galileo, to recant under the threat of
torture.

Book burning was as popular as elsewhere, but political repression added a
new dimension. This persecution too continued for centuries, until the Papacy
became too far out of step with the western world. Eventually the Church decided
to change its ways, or at least give the appearance of changing them. Pope Pius
VII purported to forbid the use of torture in 1816, though in practice it
continued to be used for decades to come. Public burnings became something of an
embarrassment too. The answer was not to abandon executions but to carry them
out more discretely. Pius IX, in an edict of 1856, sanctioned 'secret
execution'. In the Papal States things had changed little since the Middle Ages
- it was for example still a crime to eat meat on a feast day. Political trials
were conducted by priests, whose power was absolute. Again, the accused were not
permitted legal representation, nor were they allowed to face their accusers.
All this came to an end only in 1870, when the Papal States were seized. The
last prisoners of the Inquisition were released, and the Pope became a self
confined prisoner in his own palace.

In 1908 the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Inquisition changed its name to
the Holy Office. In 1967 it changed it again, this time to the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith. It still functions from a large building near the
sacristy of St Peter's in Rome. Since 1870 its dungeons have been converted into
offices. Despite the name change, there is no apparent embarrassment about its
history. On the contrary it still conducts heresy trials according to rules that
breach what are elsewhere regarded as elementary rules of natural justice.

Because so many records have been lost no one knows how many people were
sentenced to death by Inquisitors.

Even sources sympathetic to the Roman Church
accept estimates in excess of nine million.One irony is that the Medieval,
Spanish and Roman Inquisitions would all have burned Jesus as a persistent
heretic if he had appeared before them. They might each have done so on
different grounds: for example for advocating absolute poverty, for practising
Judaism, and for criticising St Peter.

Indeed, KILLING PEOPLE in LARGE NUMBERS _is_the insane, Zio-Nazi agenda...exactly as "g-o-d" SENT A FAMINE to STARVE EGYPTIANS shortly after Joseph arrived in Egypt, according to the bible's dreadful "Exodus" story, andexactly as the Jews BRAG and EXULT about Joshua's alleged(mythical, historically never happened)CONQUEST, destruction, and MASSACRES of Canaanite towns, villages and cities in their dreadful bible "JERICHO" story..